If things go wrong In Russia, who will take the blame?

If things go wrong In Russia, who will take the blame? (1)

Archived Articles | 04 Dec 2008 | EWR OnlineEWR

Vitaliy Portnikov

(RFE/RL) – "Lenin answers all questions." For Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, these words from a poem every Soviet schoolchild read are not an abstraction.

Each year during his presidency, Putin answered questions put to him by viewers of federal television, questions phoned in by viewers along with some posed by people who gathered at specially prepared regional centers.

This article is available in full at The Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty website, at
http://www.rferl.org/content/I...

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where's Maximahv?05 Dec 2008 13:49

....and why isn't he barking at us?
We should know by now that everything that comes out of Russia is just swell.

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